Shirt



(No Model.)

P. L. SHELDON.

SHIRT.

"Patented Apr. 26, 1887.

or inlay of thicker FRANK L. SHELDON, OF RATIW'AY, NEYV JERSEY.

SHIRT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 361,898, dated April 26, 1887.

I Application filed February 7, 1887. Serial NmQQGJG-i. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK L. SHELDON, of ltahway, in the county of Union and State of New Jersey, have invented an Improvement in Collars for Shirts, of which the following is a specification.

In the manufacture of shirts, especially woolen shirts, it is usual to attach to the body of the shirt at neekband, and to provide a turnover collar as a separate piece connected at .the upper edge of the neckband, and in this case the neekband frequently receives a lining material for stiffening the n'eckband. In this instance, however, the seam between the neckband and the turn-over collar is objectionable, because it is liable to chafe and injure the neckof the wearer, and the lines of sewing or stitching are liable to be broken. In some cases the turn-over collar has been attached directly to the upper end of the shirt-body or the yoke; but as there is in that case no neckband orstiilening the fold of the turn -over collar is liable to be irregular, and the turn-over collar does not set properly oruniformly.

The object of my invention is to obviate all these ditliculties by introducing a stiffening between the outerand inner parts of the turnover collar, so that while the turn-over collar is connected directly to the body of the shirt .the point at which the fold in the turn-over collar will occur is determined by the stiffening or inlay.

In the drawings, Figure l is a perspective View representing the upper part of the shirt and the turn over collar. Fig. 2 shows the outer fabric of the turnover collar, with the band or inlay attached thereto; and Fig. 3 is a sectionat the line a: or, Fig. l;

The shirtbody A is of any desired or convenient character, and the turn-over collar is composed of thetwo thicknesses B and G, which are cut out of the proper shape, and the fabric at the edges 2 3 4 is turnedinwardly and united by one or more lines of stitching at 5. v

The inlay or stiffening D is of suitable material, usuallyheavy muslin, cut on the bias,

The lower edges of the collarareto be turned inwardly, and the upper edges of the shirtbody at the neck portion inserted between the fabrics 1-3 and O of the collar and the parts united by sewing, there being one or twolines ot' stitching at S. It is also usually preferable to unite the two fabrics of the turn-over collar by a line or stitching at or near the upper edge of the inlay or stitl'eniug 1), so that the fold between the neck portion of the collar and the exterior of turned-over portion may be at or near this line of stitching. It will be now understood that the inlay or stiffening l) performs all the duty of a neckband, so far as causing the fold of the turnover collar to assume a regular-and defined position at the upper edge of the inlay, and that there are-no seams at or near the fold of the turn-over collar; hence theparts are more durable than in the shirts heretofore constructed. Y

I claim as my invention- The combination, with the shirt'body and the two thicknesses of fabric forming the turnover collar, of an inlay or stiffening, I), at tached to the innersurface of one of said thicknesses and near the'bottoni edge thereof, so as to be between the two fabrics, the bottom edges of the turn -over collar being connected directly to the shirt-body, substantially as set forth.

GEO. T. PINOKNEY, TIL LT AM G. M can.

Signed by me this 1st dayof February, 1887 

